Re: [IRCA] 1660 WDAF Kansas City KS enquiry

[Scott Fybush <scott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

BARRY DAVIES wrote:
> Hello IRCA'ers DX-midAMerica reports that 1660 has changed calls from
> KXTR to WDAF. Can any one confirm that 1660 is simulcasting country
> music from 106.5 FM? If so, would this be permitted long term?
> 
> Barry Davies Editor North American News MWC UK 

The FCC no longer enforces any restrictions on AM/FM simulcasting, so 
yes, it would be permitted - but it's not what's happening here. The 
106.5 facility is changing call letters, as it tries to ditch what's 
perceived as the "old" WDAF calls and the heritage they carry, and 
Entercom wants to keep the calls in the family, so they're moving them 
to the classical AM on 1660, which will remain classical.

Rather a dumb move, if you ask me, since the KXTR calls that were on 
1660 have a long classical heritage of their own in Kansas City, having 
spent many decades in use on 96.5 FM there.

s
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